This week has been full of:
I've had my eye on this spooky-looking plant in my parents' front yard for a while. It finally bloomed! The pear trees out front have been weighed down with these tiny, sweet pears for the last couple of weeks. The limbs were almost at the breaking point when I finally got out there to pick them. Thanks to my Nana and our neighbor, Granny, I've recently come into a lot of apples. There's no way I could eat or bake them all into something, so I decided to can them. Come October when the four of us are 500 miles away...
More milk glass!
I believe I've made my love of milk glass known, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that whenever I visit thrift stores I'm always on the lookout for interesting pieces. I wasn't on the lookout for anything, however, when I was at my grandmother's house earlier this week helping her make jam. I went into the laundry room and saw these two beautiful serving dishes sitting on top of the washing machine, and I literally gasped. After informing me that she never uses them and making me promise not to break them, my grandmother told me I...
1886 Vintage Ingalls Embroidery Patterns
I literally jumped for joy when I saw that Feeling Stitchy had posted a link to these beautiful 1886 Ingalls vintage embroidery patterns, which have been cleaned up and made available by Flickr's jeninemd. There's no way I could pick favorites, but here a few that really jumped out at me: Embroidery has become my lazy-summer-watching-television-everything-else-is-in-the-garage-or-too-expensive craft, and I can't wait to stitch some of these beautiful vintage designs. (all images courtesy of jeninemd via...
My favorite thing about summer…
I used Flickr photos for the fried green tomatoes and caprese salad because both times we've made them this week they've been eaten up before pictures could be taken. What's your favorite thing about...
Something I Love
I really, really hate to dust. Because of this, I am also not too crazy about knick-knacks, as they tend to just collect dust. I think that too many of them can be overwhelming and look more like clutter, so I try to be pretty minimalist about what junk I choose to have on display. These vases are some of my favorite things. I have no idea what they're called, and I'm sure they're not worth more than the couple of dollars I pay for them at thrift stores. Still, I can't help but love how clean and fresh that milky white...
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Winesburg, Ohio (Bantam Classic) by Sherwood Anderson
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The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
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